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Still Catching The New Wave

The Flashcubes flashback at the Lost Horizon to celebrate 35 years of power pop

The Flashcubes were together for a relatively short period, from 1977 to 1980, yet the power pop-punk group endures with its pulsating legacy, almost as big and loud as their sound. They’ve p

Out of the Past

The Jamie Notarthomas Band reunites for a Friday night of tunes at Limp Lizard

It’s been nearly 16 years since the Salt City trio of singer, songwriter and guitarist Jamie Notarthomas, bassist Scott Schimpf and drummer Tony Carbone shared a stage.

Rise Up

Soul Risin’ steps up with a new album that tackles life and death

Songwriters draw inspiration from all parts of life: the mundane and the spectacular, love and hate, pain and forgiveness, life and death. For Bryan Weinsztok, the singer, songwriter and guitarist for Soul Risin’, those latter themes supplied him the motivation to write the 11 songs on the band’s new independent album Rise & Fall. The CD was released on Tuesday, Oct. 16, a day connected to those inspirational ideas of life and death: Oct. 16 also marked the one-year anniversary that Weinsztok lost his father, Alejandro (Alex) Gabriel Weinsztok, to cancer.

Shock Treatment

Creepshow rocker Alice Cooper officially kicks off his new tour at the Turning Stone on Friday: The New Times Interview

It wouldn’t really be Halloween time in Central New York without an Alice Cooper concert. And sure enough, everybody’s favorite ghoulish rock’n’roller returns to the region wit

Gone Phishin’

David Calarco’s Phish blogs have been turned into a book

Phorgive us, readers, phor a second while we try to be phunny. Because there are very phew bands with such a devoted phollowing in today’s music scene as Vermont’s phinest: Phish, the ph

Bring the Noise

The wild and raucous tunes of Matt & Kim will make the Westcott Theater bounce

Brooklyn dance-punks Matt & Kim are as “do-it-yourself” as it gets. They record albums in their own apartment, spend hours in teleconference with...

The Felice Brothers

The upstate New York-bred, New York City-based band that started busking in subways has become a hot act for cool fests like this weekend’s Ski Caz Jam 6 happening at the...

Ring-a-Ding Boomeranger

Vincent Falcone, Frank Sinatra’s former bandleader, returns to Central New York for Jazz-N-Caz

One fall day in 1977, jazz pianist Vincent Falcone got a phone call from Frank Sinatra’s manager. “Mr. Sinatra wants to know if you can conduct,” said the voice on the line. Falcone

Sample History

Veteran jazz funkster Joe Sample performs a Saturday gig at Utica’s Munson-Williams Proctor

Joe Sample’s two most recent CDs, Live (PRA) with vocalist Randy Crawford, and the reissue Did You Feel That (Warner Jazz), both serve as reminders of the lengthy legacy that the veteran pianis